Geoff Dixon, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Qantas, Australia's
biggest airline, listens to a question during a media conference in
Sydney December 1, 2003. Dixon and Alan Joyce, CEO of the new low-cost
Qantas carrier named Jetstar, announced that Jetstar plans to aquire 23
Airbus planes in Qantas's efforts to fend off competition from Richard
Branson's Virgin Blue. REUTERS/David Gray

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